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?V?RY TUESDAY.
HUISCllllTION #t.tH> I'ER YKAK.
TUB POINT OF VIEW.
BY HUBAN UUKTIS KKDFIBL.U.
. I.
V Ttiore they are, Ephraim ! t see
Matilda's purulo bonnet. How that
locomotiveihres Boreoeh I I'm afraid
colttL^fton't stand it. This way,
igall !""Hurry in, Matilda! These
colts are restless." '
Ephraim Grant's Bieters, Miss Ma
tilda and Miss Abigail, wore proceed
ing to oboy tho . injunotlons of their |
slBter-in-law when a lad, with a groat
flourish of whip, and. many urgent
"get up's" drove up to the littlo rail
way station.
"Why, there's Jim??, exclaimed
Miss Abigail. "Now Ephraim, wo'U
go right on home."
"You can upeak for yourself," Bald
MIbs Matilda. "I'm going to stay at
Ephralm's all night. I never was bo
Bhakon up i.n my life ; that's a dread
fully rough road wo'vb just como over."
" Now 1 was glad of the shaking,"
laughed Miss Abigail. " I had oaten
Buoh a huurty dinner, and slinking is
good for the rheumatism, Matilda."
" It's very easy to see the silver
lining to somebody else's oloud," re
torted MIbs Matilda, " and it's down
right irritating in you, Abigail, to bo
always glad whon.othor folks uro sorry.
Guess that woman with tbe slok baby
didn't liko tho rough road much bettor
than I did 1"
" Good-byo," called her siBtor from
tho old phuoton. " Pleasant night to
you, Matilda."
II.
"Pleasant night indeed 1" ropoated
Mlsb Matilda, who had finally settled
heraell in tho wagon. "Now, If that
Isn't like Abigail and nobody elso I
When sbo knows that my hoadV
aohlng to split, and that I've got rheu
matism so that I ean fairly near my
knees squoak whon I bend them, and
I'm just done out with all tbo talking
I'vo lived through this week ! What's
tho mattor with you, Ephraim? You
haven't opened you mouth since wo got
off tho train."
"Oh, 1 was just waiting for my turn,
Ephraim, Blowly. " There's
[l*e>J[ike bettor than to bear
boy.aml his family."
u began Miss Matilda, " In
aco, just as I told ^you be*
krtcd, it would hav?Vhaao
?tTOtfOT t?T^yoa? tnid Sarah
havo gone there Instead , of
Sibigall apd me to visit them,
t feel pleasant about it, I'm
suru. They-bald 'twas two years since
you had been thore."
" But they know why," said her
brother. "What, with scarlot fever,
and moaslcs, and every other catch
ing disoaso last year, and all tho
troublo I've had getting help on tho
farm this year, and Surah Jane su
takon up with her sick old uiothor,
and?"
"That isn't a bit like Joo!" inter
rupted Mrs. Grant,'indignantly. "II
he doe8 foei so, Suoy must havo put
him up to it."
"Likely enough," replied Miss Ma
tilda.
"Poor Joo I He's got lots of bur
dens, and ho used to bo such, a jolly
boy ! He looks older, I toll you, and
he's getting gray, and wrinklos on the
forohoad aud arouud the eyes. Lucy?
Oh, woll, you always say that I look od
tho dark sido. Maybe I do. I hope
so, I'm euro."
"Oh, don't bo so aggravating, Ma
tllda I" cried Mrs! Grant.
" Woll," bogan Miss Matilda uguin.
" if you will havo it, nobody can blame
mo,' I'm sure. Luoy's a city woman
with city ways and bringing up, anc
she's no manager."
11 How is poor Lucy ?" inquiret
Ephraim, kindly. " I always llket
Luoy."
" Woll, that accident to her knee ii
turning out bad enough. Sho is lam<
for life; has to wear a machine t<
keep tho bonos In place, and it weight
live pounds. I guoss it makes hot
about sick most of the time. Joo has i
holploss wife on his hands for the resl
of his life. Sho can't got about much
and that reminds mo of anothor thing
Bk Sho stays home from church beoaust
SB sho Isn't comfortable In tho pew, am
E so Joo has to go alone with the chit
? dron, and naturally tho next thing
we'll hoar will be that ho doesn't gc
either. . .. I
"And talking of tho children, they
" sot tho broom on Uro in the parlor
grate ono day and then ran out with
it all ablaze and laid it on tho sitting
room sofa. If I hadn't been there,
that whole house, would have been in
flames. And if you'd believe it, those
children woren|t punished one bit.
Lucy just took them into the bedroom
and talked to thorn a littlo, and when
abo told Joo about it she actually
laughed ! Oh ! those chlliron are
coming up In a sad way. I- must toll
you anothor thing thoy used to do.
Tho gate posts aro high and hollow,
and it was their favorito amusement
to olimb up and take off the top of the
post and then drop the kitten in cloar
down to tho bottom. Then they'd let
down a ropo for hur to eomo up on,
and they really trainod that poor boast
to be drawn up on that ropo. Thoy
' ig the perishing.'
\ under heaven that
that cat, and her
size walle I was
Sighed Mrs. Grant. "It
Kdftil u? think of the ohil
l/gwild like that, and allowed
J, too I"
moans woll," continued Ma
^but she's queer, not liko our
[Now sho doesn't manago right;
Lps two girls."
H girls !" interrupted her aistor
? two girls. 'A course boing
Jd in tne city sho'd naturally
?no. But instead of doing tho
Uwhu,' and mending sho koopg
help with the room work and
x, and do tho sewing, whilo she
'jltH dabbling with paints. She Baid
llpmothing onco about selling the
bioturcs, but our Luclnda Harris paints
br hotter, and you know Luclnda tried
fto sell hors and couldn't. And I know
Joo's business worries him sometimos,
und that ho has hard work to make
both ends meet." t %
I " Dear mo I" slghod Mrs. Grant.
?I'm afraid things aro in a bad way
hero Ephraim. I guess wo'll just
' 4?n to co thore and soo for ourselves."
?? Not to-night," replied Mr. Grant,
"floro wo aro at last. Hullo, Frank l
Rrlncr a lantorn I"
?'I'm going straight to bod," said
Miss Matilda, as soon as she entered
the house. "I'm actually too tired to
Htioak. I hopo I haven't said anything
to worry you. Very Hkolyyou havon't
tiikon it as I meant it. I'd rather not
havo said a word, but you would have
it."
HI.
Ephraim ?rant and his wifo retired
late that evening, and poor Mrs. Grant
hod a restless, uncomfortable night.
Sho aroso the next morning feollng
fill moro distressed in mind, and
firmly resolvod to take the first op
portunity to visit tho disordered houso
???T?vo nad a dreadful night, Ephraim,"
iflsa'd, almost crying. "I dreamed
all the cats on Joe's plaoo (and
re woro dozens of thorn, too) had
L^n their kneoa and were ail going
liko kangaroos, and Luoy had
>d both children into ne gato
post, and put tho top on tight, and
then ?ot fire to it.
" When vre get the oberes done up
we 11 drive over to nee Abigail," said
her husband. ." You'll Und? things
aren't as bad aa you think. Matilda'*
going to spend the day with Jane
l.oomis. eo we'll have Abigail to our
selves.'*
"Things way not be o bad, but Ma
tilda never made all thf.t up, Ephraim.
There couldn't be so much &moko with
out some firo."
But Ephraim only whistled softly
and went out to feed the oalves.
IV.
There was an odd smile on Mius Abi
gail's face when hoi brother Ephraim
and his wife entered her kitchen that
morning.
" So glad to Boe you 1" she cried.
"Somehow I was expecting you. So
Matilda has gone to see Jane, has she?
Take oft your things and sit down by
the stove. I suppose- Matilda has tola
you all about her visit, and perhaps
I shall be 'bringing coals to New
castle' if I tell my story, but I had
suoh a lovely time that I'm afraid I
oah't keep still. It's suoh a happy
home, Ephraim 1 'Twould do you and
Sarah Jane good to see it, and I do
wish you could go. And they wish bo,
too *, they sent a thousand loving mes
sages to you both. I've been In some
places whore the folks seemed to turn
'all their blessings into worries, but
it seems as if trouble eon Id n't bo a
trouble long after it got into Joe's
house, for before it knows what has
happened it has become a blessing in
"Now that's good!" said her brother,
heartily.
" But Matilda says Joe isn't jolly any
moro, and that he is growing old.
She says he is gray and wrinkled, too,"
said Mr. Grant.
" Ephraim was gray as a rat when
he was thirty (yes, be was. Sarah Jano),
and Joe's thirty-five. And Ephraim
and Joe both have the same trick of
smiling up to their eyebrows and mak
ing wrinkles doing it. As for his
being jolly, he is something better
now, Sarah Jane."
"Matilda says ho carries some heavy
burdens," continued Mrs. Grant, in a
despondent tone.
{* Most of us do if we live long
onough, and don't insist on slipping
them oil' our own back onto somobody
elso's," replied Miss Abigail.
" He's got a helpless wife," said
Mrs. Grant, Aournfully. "She's of no
uso whatever in the family that I can
see."
" Did Matilda say that ?" Inquired
Miss Abigail. " Now, see here. Sarah
Jano, Joe's your only son. When ho
whs a youngster you thought he ought
to have everything be wanted, and, as
far as you could, you gave it to him,
and you kept right on that way as long
as you had him at homo. It is natural
j enough that you shouldn't want any
? thing to cross hlra now, but, bless you,
if Joo Is going to have the joys and
comforts of married life, he Is bound to
have the cares and burdens, too. I
Rupposo you would like to cover hie
path "with roses, but If you did tbore'd
bo Borne thorns among them, aud Joe
would prick bis toes. Mrs. Amos,
Lucy's mother, fools just, tho same
about Lucy."
" Yjmi needn't pity Lucy," replied
MIsb Abigail. " She's a happ'y wo
man, with a husband who adores her,
and those loving children. Yes, 1
know there is a little grave under the
old olm tree, but Joe and Lucy says it
has brought heaven nearer. Thej
have had sickness, but there are worse
troubles than that. Money Is a little
short sometimes, hut they manage t<
live very comfortably. Joe going tc
give up his religion and stop going tc
church 1 Joe says Lucy's life is the
best sermon ho ever had, ami besides
, Lucy is going to churoh herself next
. Sunday. Sho will go|right along bow
I presume,
i " I'm sure I'm wonderfully relieved
that you look at evory thing this way,'
. said Mrs. Grant, "but why does Lucj
keep two girls and amuso herself wltl
painting instead of doing hor sewing ?'
, "Lucy found it much cheapor t<
keep tho girl than to do the work her
1 self," said Miss Abigail. "Luoy gob
a good price for hor pictures, and selli
1 all she oan do to one store-keopoi
I there. Sho paints all sorts of things
calendars, dinner cards, china, and s<
, on. Sho wanted to toll Matilda al
. about It, but Matilda was downrighJ
, spiteful, got mad any time she heart
I or saw painting, and she hurt Lucy'i
feelings vory much. Thon Luoy helpi
t Joe a great deal with his accounts."
" Matilda doesn't soom vory inuct
pleased with tho children," said Eph
ralm.
i " Thoso children aro tho dearest
[ brightest little things I ever knew !'
. oried Miss Abigail.
"Dreadfully mischievous, I shoulc
i say," remarked Mrs. Grant, " and nol
well brought up." *
" Ephraim," said Miss Abigail
bursting into a hearty laugh, "do you
remember tho time we wero having
protracted meetings, and there was a
neighborhood prayer meeting at yout
house, and Joo sawed tho fore-legu oil
tho easy chairs, and then fitted them
neatly together r* Deacon Potter sat
down first in one of them. He was a
quiet, steady little man, and the ohalr
held up all right. Then Mrs. Bond
oame In (sho weighed a hundred and
seventy-live pounds) and sat down
putting and panting, with a kind of
bounce, in the other armohalr. Down
she oame, and Deacon Potter gavo a
groat start, and down he camo, too,
and beLpg a thin little creature he
broke his collar bone, and you had to
Eay all tho doctors' bills, Ephraim, for
e was a sort of skinflint and insisted
on it. I suppose Matilda told about
tho broom. Well, those ohildren
really had a notion of helping by
brushing down the soot, and they wore
hurrying out to the kitchen wltb the
broom when Matilda shriekod at thorn
and soared them so that they dropped
It on the sofa and ran."
" Well, Sarah Jano," said hor hus
band, slowly, rising from his chair,
"1 rather guess wo'vo got what wo
camo for, and we might as well bo
starting for him."
Sarah Jane sat vory silent on tho
way to the old farmhouse, and Eph
raim felt encouraged to talk a little
himself.
"It all d. ponds on what they call
the point of view," he said, thought
fully. "Now, there's our place. In
the summer when I take tho front
road, I think there was never anything
neater and prottlor than the old farm
house with its coat of white and green.
What with tho orchard on the up side
and the orchard on tho down side, and
the trees on eaoh side of tho house,
and your high trelllscB all covered
with grape vines, I oan't seo more
than a glimmer of the barn back of the
house. The grass in front looks so
fresh and greon, and the posy beds are
so cheerful, and the vinos over the
porch make ovorythlng seem so cool
and shady, that I think there never
was suoh a place. But when I take
the back road thero Isn't onq old shod
that I can't see way up the road, and
while I try to keep things up as tidy
as I can, there's no denying that the
view is nowhere near as handsome.
" Abigail always takes tho front
road whon she coraos here, and she's
always talking about your geraniums,
or your vines, or some fixing or other.
Now Matilda takes to tho baok road as
natural as a d'uok to water. If she has
control of the reins she always comes
driving in at our back gate, and sho's
sure to find out that the chiokon-houso
noods painting, or the pig-sty smells,
or the glass Is oroken in the barn win
dows, or tho rnllk palls out on the
bench are getting rusty. It's all my
fdaco, front and baok, but most things
n life have the two sides to 'em, and
why on oarth don't folks choose the
point whore they'll get the prettiest
view I"
?Justinian inculcated politeness on
every official of the empire.
LOOMS OF THE SOUTH.
THOROUGH PUK8KNTAT10H OF
TUB SOUTH'** ADVANTAGES.
Tbo HUuu.il?? It* viewed By a Disin
terested I'aciy Who i? M?kln? Per
sonal Inspection uf Huuiberu MilIn.
Mr. F. B. DeBerard, of The
Now York Dry Good*. Economist, is
making a thorough analysis of the
mills of tho South, collecting data and
personally inspecting the mill proper
ties of the South for the special edi
tion of The Dry Goods Economist,
which will bo published in January,
under the title, "The Looms of the
South, Cotton Mills in Cotton Fields."
He has just completed a tour of the
mills of North and South Carolin?] ]
where he has watched the looms and
spindles, interviewed tho mill presi
dents and superintendents and made a
study of the subject that makes him
ui.questionably the most reliable au
thority in the country on cotton manu
facturing in the South.
The Augusta Chronicle had an inter
view with Mr. DeBerard and his views
as expressed below are tho most en
couraging words that could bo spoken.
I They came not from a man who Is
i seeking to flatter but one who has en
I tored tho field with a keen, dlserlml
I nating analytical mind, robbed of sen
I timont and acting from a thoroughly
disinterested standpoint.
" If all the cotton products of Amer
ica," said DeBerard, reached the con
sumer by the most direct routes, the
average cost of transportation would
be about one-half cent a pound. Tho
consumer now pays about one and one
fourth cents (li) a pound freight
charges on every pound of cotton goods
he uses. Three-fifths of tbe total oost
of transportation 1b abnormal, because
It is paid for moving the raw material
away from the centers of consumption
Instead of toward them.
"The New England States produce
neither cotton nor fuel. Thoy trans
Jiort their cotton 2,000 miles and their
uel 500 miles; and they transport
both away from their final destination
instead of toward it.
" And tho consumer pays tho
freight I He pays for carrying tho
raw material and the fuel far away ;
and he pays for bringing it back I
"Nevertheless, this abnormal trans
portation tax may not be an economic
waste. There are many elements of
cost In manufactured products, and
some of them may be relatively so low
as to compensato for those that are ex
cessive.
" Now England pays dear for Its raw
material and fuel. To compensato for
excessive, cost of those factors, It must
have some exceptional advantages. II
it pays moro for its transportation, it
may pay less for labor, may bo supe
rior in skill, in management, in equip
ment, in methods. If It pays more
than tho South for some things,
it may pay less than the South for
other things. Maebino for maehine,
it may turn out moro product than the
South. Operative, for operative, 11
may produce moro than the South,
Yard for yard and pound ku- pound,
New Eugland's cotton goodsViust cost
less than the South'* if it continues te
maintain its ground.
" If New England cotton goods cost
loss than Southern cotton goods, it
must bo because Now England gett
more out of its machinery and work
\ people than the South gets. If it doe.
not do this, its product costs more, itt
, days are numbered, and tbe ond is not
distant.
, " What are tho facts ?
" They aro stated Impartially in th<
( Looms of the South, upon whicl
t I am now engaged, and every readei
, can weigh them for himself. The pres
'. ent conditions of cotton manufacturing
. in tho South will be fully and honestl]
set forth. Nono of Iho data givon an
' at second hand. They are the result
I of careful and prolonged personal in
> vestigation and inspection. For thi
r purpose nearly every loading cottoi
, mill in tho South and a large numbe
i of tbe minor mills havo been visited
, The data socured aro absolutely rolls
. ble. In nearly every instance the;
, were obtaineu from the account book
, of tbe mills visited, and all figures re
, lating to output and cost wore careful
ly verified from indepondont sources
" That tho South is ontoring upon i
I now ora of wonderful prosperity, oai
. hardly be doubted by tho unbiasci
I observer. In the- Looms of th<
, South " is offered a true picture of tbi
, beginnings of that prosperity.
" A few years ago Now England ha<
k no rival In tbo manufacture of cottoi
. goodp. Practically, tho whole Ameri
can industry was hero. With start
ling rapidity the South has dovelopec
> into a formidable competitor. Tin
long accepted dictum, 'Cotton goodi
I can't be mado in tho South ' hau beoi
. proved untrue. Cotton goods are
mado in the South; and for the firs
time New England finds in full opera
I tion against ner economic laws tha'
, have hitherto been latent.
" With no competitors, New Eng
' land was under no disadvantages
With the South as a competitor, hei
natural disadvantages count against
her with full force. The natural ad
vantages are with the South ; most ol
the artificial advantages are with New
England. Which set of forces is the
most poworful ?
"It is an economic truism that
natural advantages persist and are ol
progrossivo force, while artificial ad
vantages diminish and finally disap
pear. Tho South produces cotton,
coal, timber, iron ; und it is close to
the consumer. New England produces
neither and is distant from the con
sumer. As population becomes denser,
this fundamental advantage of the
South, which can nover bo lessoned,
will exert continually increassng force.'
Cheap raw material, cheap labor, and
noar-by markets aro economic mag
nets far moro powerful than any op
posing forces, and they are certain
soonor or later to attract to their sup
port the forces arrayod against them
at tho outset.
"Those opposing foioes, spoken of
above as artificial advantages, are
plentiful capital, highly developed
skill, varied development, capablo
management. All these New England
has in abundance; but *h? can not
prevent their free migration. Thoy
aro all tho creatures of opportunity ;
and if the South offers tho opportunity
capital and skill will go South and
create the varied development.
" This is not more theory; it Is a
plain statement of what is actually
happening now, every day, and with
daily growing momentum. It is tho
bare truth that the South today has
better mills than tho North?thoy are
the product of the host engineering
skill obtainable, and in every dotail of
construction and arrangement are of
tbo highest and most scientific -type.
They aro equipped with the most mod
ern maohinery, ombodylng tho latest
desirable labor-saving improvements,
and are of higher avorage efficiency,
attested by quality and quantity of
output, than any but a fow Northern
mills. Moreovor. thoy havo been con
structed' at far less cost than other
mills, and represent much less cost
per spindle or per loom than the ioss
effioient Northern mills. With loss
capital Invested, they have greater
earning powor than than their North
ern competitors. *
"The test of tho relativeskill em
ployed Is tho quality and quantity of
output. In the comparison of simillar
grades, the output of the best Sputh
ern mlllj Is fully as great and in some
oases greater than that of the best
Northern mills. It is produced with
the same number of machines and the
same number of operatives, and it is
produced at muoh less cost than the
firoduct of Northern mills. Finally,
t is of higher avorage quality than
Northern product. So muoh for tbo
results of skill and experience.
" As to capital, hardly a leading
Southern mill but numbers among its
stockholders many Northern investors.
Southern onorgy, Southern oapaolty
and business shrowdne?>* have been the
organizing forces. Tbey havo shown
that Southern men have all tho quali
ties noedful to command success, aud
can without foreign aid de/elop a
great opportunity until It becomes a
great succebs. Upon the foundation
laid by Southern men, Sagaoiou* North
ern capitalists hare aided to build a
Kreut superstruoture, confident of its
firmness.
"Lvadlng investors in Fall River
mill stocks are also confident ib vstors
?n certain mills in the South, from
which thoy are receiving large divi
dends.
" Among the capitalists of Worth
street, thero are many who have been
quiet investors in Southern mills, and
I were it fitting to publish a list of the
I directors of the mills of the South the
I number of Worth street capitalists to
be found amongst them would cause a
sensation. In one suoh board elected
within a few days, is a prominent
Worth street merchant, a great New
York clothing manufacturer, and two
New England manufacturers, identi
fied with cotton goods; whilst among
the stockholders are Huston capitalists,
Maine manufacturers of woolens, and
others who have hitherto believed
only in Northern investments.
" ' I put my first $5,000 Investment
in a Southern mill,' said the Worth
street raerohant. ' just to help a man
along. I didn't regard my investment
as worth anything. Since then, I
have changed my opinion about South
The raerohant in question has now
probably a half million dollars in
vested In various p'.rts of the South
in cotton mills. Ho is one of the few
who understand fully the greatness of
tho opportunity. Those who realize
it i are already large investors. A
steady current of Northern capital Is
already flowing South; and the our
rent seems likely to bocomo a torrent
ere long."
ON THE TARIFF AND FINANCE.
FOROASTING THK PRESIDENT'S
MESSAGE.
Good Reasons lor the BollefThat Re
Will Adhere 8triotly to Former Ut
terances on These Most Important
Questions. ,
There arogood reasons for the belief
that In his forthcoming message to
Congress President Cleveland will
strictly adhere to his previous utter
ances in regard to tho tariff und finan
cial questions, and It is altogothor
probable that these subjects, together
with that of our foreign affairs, will
occupy practically, if not absolutely,
the wholo messago to the exclusion of
all other matter. It is believed that
the President will counnond the pres
ent tariff, as a step In the dlrootlon ol
lightening the burdons of the people,
and that although It has thus fat
failed to bring In a sufficient amount
of revenue to satisfy tho needs of the
government, it may confidently, be ex
pected to do so under normal basinos?
conditions.
It Is bollcTcd that ho will point out
what alroady the Incroasing receipt?
from eilstoins aud internal revenue
unmistakably show a gradual, though
sure, return to business prosperity
and that In the near future the receipt,
from these sources will oven more that
meet tho legitimate expenses of the
government. It is tberofore not
thought that Mr. Cleveland will re
) I commend tho Imposition of any addi
tional internal revenue taxation oithei
by lncroasiug the duties now existing
or by adding new subjects.
There will bo considerable discussioi
as to whether the President may no
favor a tax on domestic wines ant
beers, and patent medicines, but sucl
information as is obtainable makei
! I it moro than probable that he has no
eonsldorod any of these questions n
that connection.
That he will recommend legislatioi
* retiring tho greenbacks by the issue, o
l low rate bonds seems to be almost cor
r tain, and It is not likoly that ho wil
ask Congress as an alternative, to au
thorlzo tbe Seoretary of tho Tveasur;
f I to issue .ow rate bonds, in his disoretloi
a I within certain limits, to protect tin
gold reserve.
In tho realm of foreign affairs, tin
subject which it ie expoctod will clain
i the greatest share of attention at th<
l hands of tho Prosident, and from It
1 nature will require the most states
i manlike and cautions treatment wil
3 bo tho Cuban insurrection. Whlli
thero Is good reason for tho bollof tha
1 I the Prosident has steadily adhered b
i I tho viow expressed so forcibly by ox
Senator Edmounds to tho effect that a
conditions oxist on the Island, thoro i
I I no warrant in international law o
precodont for the recognition of Lhi
bellngerenoy of the Insurgents, then
are Indications that very recent ovents
and notably tho adoption by the Insur
\> I gents of a policy of wanton dostruotloi
of private property including vast su
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citizens may oblige him to change tin
passive attitude he has occupied hith
erto in favor of a moro vigorous anc
positive lino of action.
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case of our lato rebellion, Spain can
not bo held accountable forthoso losso*
by Americans, provided It is evident
that she, has done all in her power tc
stop tbe destruction of private prop
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equal sufferers by tho operations of the
insurgents.
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Eeril of the aotlvo interference of the
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way.
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A Thanksgiving Apple-Tree.
Tho Pansy.
Dolly Parsons and her little broth-1
er were coming back from the apple-1
tree, somewhat tired and decidedly i
discouraged. It was a fine af ternoou I
near the first of October, and thej
path to the apple-tree lay through
tall grass and nodding golden-rod J
where the bees hummed soitly. The
sky was as blue as one could wish,
and the leaves on the trees were just I
beginning to bo tinted by the earliest
frost*. Certainly it was not the!
weather no* tbe scenery that made
the children sad.
Dolly had her apron filled with 1
apples, and Bobby held one in his I
hand, but they were not very attrac-1
tive-looking fruit. They were hard
and dingy aud small; you could tell
by looking at them that it would
wrinkle your face to try to eat one
and worst of all, almost every one
had a little black holo somewhere in
its skin.
"Ugh !" said Dolly, as she reached
the kitchen, and dumped them on
the floor before her mother. "I'm
glad I didn't have to carry them any
farther. It's not because thoy are
heavy ; a cat could carry them ; but
every single one of them has a hor
rid fat worm walking around in it!
I nearly bit into one in the first ap-1
pie I tried. Wall!" and she gave a
little shiver at the thought of the
bite.
Mrs. Parsons looked at them si
lently. Then she Raid, "They do
look rather discouraging. But don't
think about them anymore, my dear.
A great many worse things might
have happened to us, you know."
"O. dear 1 I suppose so," said Dol
ly, "but I think 1 shouldn't have
minded them so much. It's the only
bit of fun we have that has to be
spoiled. There hasn't anything hap
pened since spring that hasn't seem
ed to go straight for our applc-treo!"
11 And then she dropped into a little
?I heap on the lloor, and let some tears
roll into her apron. Bobby cried
too; he always cried when his sister
rlid.
What could be the trouble with
the usually happy little girl ? Was
it possible that she was so fond of
apples that her happiness would be
spoiled by the discovery that those
on their tree were wormy and few
j I and small ? You could not have be
11 lieved it if you had known her. The
truth is, this apple-tree had an im
portance all its own.
J j It was on the edge of the orchard,
but the orchard did not belong to
Mrs. Parsons. Her land was a nar
row strip, with the little red house
in f rout, and a little garden behind,
that ran up to Mr. Sanderson's or
chard. Just where tho Hue was that
divided Mr. Sanderson's land from
Mrs. Parson's no one had known ;
and at last Mr. Sanderson had said :
"I have been measuring as well as
I can, Mrs. Parsons, to find where
the fence ought to come, and I can't
quite make out whether the line^goes
on my side or your side of the first
big apple-tree in the orchard. I'm
going to run it on my side, so as to
he sure and not take more than my
share. So if you've never in ted
that apple-tree yours, you can do it
now. I shouldn't wonder if you
could sell the apples on it for quite
a bit, if you don't care to use them
all; they're some of the best-tasting
fruit anywhere around."
Then the Parsons family?which
consisted only of the mother and
Dolly and Bobby?had rejoiced. At
their house money was ?not by any
means plentiful, and the prospect of
adding even a few dollars to what
Mrs. Parsons could earn was a bright
one. To make sure of good results
Mr. Butterworth, the grocer, was
visited, and ho agreed, very cheerful
ly, to buy all tho apples Mrs. I'ar
sons would send him from her one
tree; Mr. Butterworth had tasted
them himself, and knew they were
good.
It was quite early in the summer
that Mrs. I'arsons said to Dolly: "I
think, my dear, that wo are coming
out a little better this year than we
did last; and if I am right, and we
get any money from the apple-tree,
we will plan to use it for a Thanks
giving dinner. We have not had
such a Thanksgiving as I wanted?
such as my mother used to plan for
?since you were old enough to re
member." She did not say "since
your father died," but Dolly knew
very well what she meant, and that
since they had been left alone in the
world it had been hard enough to
find plain things to eat for every-day
dinners, without any holiday extra
vagance.
You may imagine, then, how the
children watched the apple-tree,
when Mrs.* Parsons' plan was ex-1
plained to them. From early Bpring,
indeed, they had been proud of it as
something which had become their
very own: and when the lovely blosr
chard with pink and white showers,
they had gone half wild with delight.
Not one flower was picked from the
tree, and the progress of each blos
som into a tiny green apple was
watched with an interest which the
old tree had surely never met with
before.
But alas! it was as Dolly said;
since blobsoming-time almost every
thing seemed to conspire againBt
that apple-lree. A severe frost came j
when it was already so near summer
that all things in garden and orchard
were lifting up their heads to the
sun, and brimming over with sweet, i
new sap. In mid-summer, then, it
was dreadfully dry, so that almost
all the leaves shriveled up in the
sun nine and dust; and when a
storm did come, it blew so hard that
half the apples on the tree, still
green and small, were blown off, and
rotted on the ground. Last of all
came the fat little worms which Dol
ly so hated, to spoil what fruit might
have escaped the weather. All these
things, of course, had fallen upon
the whole orchard, and all the or
chards about; but the Parsons' tree,
just at the edge of the field, had
fared the worst; and as it was their
only one, the chance of getting any
money by selling apples at the
grocery grew smaller and smaller,
and finally dwindled away altogether.
It was not until the very week be
fore Thanksgiving that the children
gave up hope entirely. Then, as
they stood before the bare branches
of their faithless tree, and remem
bered that the turkey and the pump
kin pie and all the other good things
of which they had dreamed were as
far away as ever they had been, and
that plain soup and bread and milk
must take their place, they put
their arms around each other's necks
and cried. Dolly would not let her
self do such a thing in the house,
for she had begun to realize that the
disappointment was as great for her
mother, on her account, as for her
self ; but surely there could be no
harm in shedding a few tears out
here in the orchard.
They were not alone, however.
Tom Sanderson was taking a morn
ing walk, and picking up an occa
sional apple which seemed to have
escaped the frost and the worms,
when he came across the tearful lit
tle couple. "What's this ?" he said.
"Lost something ?"
"Yes," said Dolly, trying to dry
her eyes in secret. "We've lost all
our apples and our Thanksgiving
dinner, and everything."
"Not quite everything, I hope,"
said Tom. "I understand the part
about the apples, but I never saw a
tree yet where a 'Thanksging din
ner and everything' grew."
Dolly could not help laughing at
this ; but she grew mournful again
as she told the story, which could
now hardly be kept back. "We were
hoping there would be money en
ough to get us all some new warm
hoods and mittens, too."
Tom looked thoughtful. Then he
whistled. "It is too bad," he said.
"But I'll tell you ; don't give up yet.
Apple-trees are queer things. You
may have some fruit on yours yet; it
comes very late sometimes, and I
think the worms must have been
all frozen stiff in their beds by this
time. If I were you I would wait
till Tuesday?that's two days before
Thanksgiving?and come and look
again."
Then he hurried off to find his
father, while the children stared af
ter him with open mouths, not know
ing what to think of his hopeful
words.
The next two or three days were
stormy, and Dolly and bobby were
in tho house almost all the time;
but on Monday the sun appeared
again, and tho night was warm and
pleasant for November. If anyone
had walked up the garden by moon
light, late that night, or again In the
gray mist of the early morning, he
might have heard footsteps and
voices about the edge of the orchard.
Hilt no one did ; why should he ? and
Dolly and Hobby slept soundly in
their beds.
Mrs. Parsons happened to say that
it was Tuesday, as they were eating
oatmeal at the breakfast table; if it
had not been for that Dolly might
have forgotten what Toni Sanderson
had said. Now she remembered every
word of his advice, and although it
seemed too silly to say. anything
about to her mother, she took Hobby
by tho hand when they went out af
ter breakfast, and led him up the
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lawn toward the orchard, for one
last look at their faithless tree.
As she came to the place where
the .grass grew thickest, because the
trunks of tho apple-trees forbade its
cutting, she stopped as suddenly as j
though someone had seized her by
the shoulders, aud gave a little cry
of surprise. Then Bobby looked,
and yelled much more vigorously ;
and then, without waiting to look
again, thoy ran back as fast as liieir
heels could fly, to get their mother.
What could be tlie matter?
All about the lower branches of
tho leafless apple-tree at tho edge of
the orchard, hanging as naturally
as though they had been growing
there all summer, in sunshine and
rain, were red-cheeked, plump-look
ing apples! They grew closer to
gether than on almost any other tree
m the orchard ; and besides those on
the branches, they were scattered all
ttbout the ground, as though the
wind had come in the night and
I thrown them about helter-skelter,
just for exercise and fun.
No better apples could have been
found in that unlucky year. The
worms had passed them by, as though
it were really too great a pity to
spoil them, and the color did not
seein to have been taken from their
cheeks by the dry weather, as in so
many cases. The only thing strange
about them, besides their rapid
growth, was that when you tried to
pull them off, you found that instead
of hanging by their own green stems
alone, they wore fastened on by bits
of wire and cord! To Mrs. Par
sons Ulis seemed to tell a good deal,
if one might judge from seme things
that she said; to Dolly herself it
gave the suspicion that these Thanks
giving apples had not grown on their
tree in precisely the usual way ; but
Hobby would not notice such a trifle
as the material of the stems, and
fell to eating sonic of the fallen fruit
in a way that showed that the inside
was as gooo. as could have been ex
pected.
There is no time to tell how the
apples were gathered and sold to Mr.
Butterworth, according to Iiis
promise; how he gave, indeed, a
much higher price than usual for
them, on account of the scarcity of
such good fruit during that season.
Oh ! there is nothing like time to tell
of the Thanksgiving dinner that the
money furnished?the turkey and
the pumpkin pie and the hoods and
mittens (not that these last were
eaten) and all! Nor what Tom
Sanderson said when Dolly went to
thank him for having given her such
ood advice; nor how remarkably
ready he was to believe her story ol*
apples that grew in such a wonder
ful way.
"1 don't believe," said Dolly,
"that there's anybody anywhere with
such a Thanksgiving apple-tree as
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